{"id":146792,"date":"2022-09-22T03:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T08:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researcher-discovers-a-muscle-that-can-promote-glucose-and-fat-burning-to-fuel-metabolism-for-hours-while-sitting"},"modified":"2022-09-22T03:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T08:22:43","slug":"researcher-discovers-a-muscle-that-can-promote-glucose-and-fat-burning-to-fuel-metabolism-for-hours-while-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researcher-discovers-a-muscle-that-can-promote-glucose-and-fat-burning-to-fuel-metabolism-for-hours-while-sitting","title":{"rendered":"Researcher discovers a muscle that can promote glucose and fat burning to fuel metabolism for hours while sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaK6TThRMdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the same mind whose research propelled the notion that \u201csitting too much is not the same as exercising too little,\u201d comes a groundbreaking discovery set to turn a sedentary lifestyle on its ear: The soleus muscle in the calf, though only 1% of your body weight, can do big things to improve the metabolic health in the rest of your body if activated correctly.<\/p>\n<p>And Marc Hamilton, professor of Health and Human Performance at the University of Houston, has discovered such an approach for optimal activation\u2014he\u2019s pioneering the \u201csoleus pushup\u201d (SPU) which effectively elevates muscle metabolism for hours, even while one is sitting. The soleus, one of 600 muscles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+body\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human body<\/a>, is a posterior leg muscle that runs from just below the knee to the heel.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the journal <i>iScience<\/i>, Hamilton\u2019s research suggests the soleus pushup\u2019s ability to sustain an elevated oxidative metabolism to improve the regulation of blood glucose is more effective than any popular methods currently touted as a solution including exercise, weight loss and intermittent fasting. Oxidative metabolism is the process by which oxygen is used to burn metabolites like blood glucose or fats, but it depends, in part, on the immediate energy needs of the muscle when it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the same mind whose research propelled the notion that \u201csitting too much is not the same as exercising too little,\u201d comes a groundbreaking discovery set to turn a sedentary lifestyle on its ear: The soleus muscle in the calf, though only 1% of your body weight, can do big things to improve the metabolic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}